Season 7 opens with Jane and Lisbon deciding to keep their new relationship a secret from their colleagues as they investigate the murder of an undercover agent. Also, young, ambitious agent Michelle Vega joins the team.

Season 6 pickes up where season 5 left off. The first eight episodes focusing on Jane's search for Red John. During this time a secret association of law enforcement officials, dubbed the "Blake Association" is brought to light and the CBI is closed down.

In this season, CBI arrest Red John accomplice, Lorelei Martins, only to have her taken from them by the FBI. Jane enlists the help of cult leader Bret Stiles to break Martins out of prison, so that she can tell him Red John's true identity.

Season 4 picks up directly after last season's cliffhanger. Jane faces murder charges after he kills a man he suspects to be Red John, while the rest of the CBI team help prove his innocence, despite being under suspension...

In this season, Jane comes to suspect a mole inside the CBI, who is working for Red John. When a Red John associate is set on fire in his jail cell and a CBI agent is framed as being Red John's mole, Jane devises a plan to lure out the real culprit.

Season 2 opens with Minelli deciding to assign the Red John case to Agent Sam Bosco, believing that Lisbon and Patrick are too close to the case. Patrick therefore decides to solve "one more case", then leave the CBI. They investigate the murder of a woman who is found suffocated after being accused of stealing a million dollars from her employer...

Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) enjoys a quiet existence with his wife, Amaya (Paz Vega), and daughter, Toby (Chloë Grace Moretz). However, it soon is shattered when he and his wife must face their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter.

After a serial killer named Red John murdered his wife and daughter, Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation, dedicates his life to hunting down and killing Red John. And on the way to get closer to Red, Patrick solves serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observation.